DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 12

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT

THE QUOTA PROPOSAL DENIAL OF A STATEMENT la his address at the Royal Empire Society's luncheon in London on November 28, in the course of which he spoke on his visit to New Zealand in connection with the dairy quota export question. Mr. Thomas Baxter is reported to have inferred that the British Minister of Agriculture, Major Walter Elliot, had collaborated with the New Zealand Minister of Finance. Mr. Coates, in the memorandum on the; quantative regulation of exports issued by the latter in May of last yes,r. • When invited to comment on this statement Mr. Coates gave it, an emphatic denial. The memorandum, he said, contained his own impressions of what was likely to happen, and no British Minister had had any part in its preparation or compilation in any shc.pe or form. A verbatim report of Mr. Baxter's spesch issued by the secretary of the Royal Empire Society contains the following: "Our Minister, with, I think I right in saying, Mr. Coates. had issued a memorandum in New Zealand drawing up what he believed to bo the position of New Zealand under the proposed quota, and he weighed what he believed to be the advantages to New Zealand with the disadvantages, but he came down in favour of the quota proposal, and when that memorandum received publicity in New Zealand, the producers took it very badly and, I believe, Mr. Coates had a bad time."